Beef noodle shop in Chinatown, Kuala Lumpur

Sin Kiew Yee Shin Kee Beef Noodles

Tripe Worth Trusting

3.5 of 5

This one started as a modest food stall in 1949, and you can feel the stall in it. Chinatown has a thousand places that want your ringgit by shouting. Sin Kiew Yee Shin Kee just stirs the pot. A Bib Gourmand arrived in the 2026 Michelin Guide, which on this street counts less as a surprise and more as a long overdue receipt.

The deal is beef, noodles and a choice. You pick ribbon rice noodles, rice vermicelli or thin Hakka noodles, then pick soup or the dry version with sauce. Come for the springy beef meatballs and the sliced beef, and be brave about the thick-cut tripe, which the guide singles out for tenderness. I trust the people who make tripe taste like this. A spoon of the homemade chili sauce is not optional, whatever your stomach says.

Mind the logistics. It opens at 10:30 in the morning and closes at 4:30 in the afternoon, so it is a late breakfast or an early lunch, never dinner. Wednesday is closed. Credit cards are not accepted, so carry cash. Eat quickly, tip your head to the cook, and walk out feeling like you have joined something.

Order this

Beef noodles, soup or dry, Beef meatballs, Thick-cut beef tripe, Homemade chili sauce

The damage

$

Go

Late breakfast or early lunch, any day but Wednesday, 10:30am to 4:30pm

Find it

7a Jalan Tun Tan Cheng Lock, Kuala Lumpur City Centre, 50000